Money is the root of all evil.
And the dollar is mightier than God.

The actual verse says the love of money is the root of all evil. Fair enough. But look around: in the world as it actually runs, prayers don't stop evictions and principles don't pay hospital bills. The dollar decides who gets the surgery, who gets the degree, who gets a childhood without fear in the house. Whatever you believe in, the dollar outranks it in practice, and pretending otherwise is a luxury for people who already have money.

So I refuse to be precious about this. Money is a terrible god and a decent hammer. I am not here to worship it. I am here to build with it.

The goal, in one line

150,000 dollars a year, post-tax, in spending money. Enough to raise a family. That is the whole justification.

That is not a yacht number. It is a family number: kids without money fear in the house, being present instead of grinding, saying yes to cleats and school trips and the occasional stupid fun thing, and never once making a desperate decision that touches the people I love. That's it. That is the entire reason this platform charges a founder fee at all.

The goal is indexed to projected inflation (2.7% per year) so it means the same thing every year, and it is shared across every product I build. One line, all sites, publicly tracked:

Everything above the line goes outward

A goal is only honest if it is also a cap. Past the family line, money stops being mine:

• Charity is wired into the protocol. Half of every fee from sale one, growing to 90% as volume climbs. It moves from escrow straight to the charity wallet. I could not intercept it if I wanted to; the code does not have that path.
• 10% of all my revenue goes into college funds for my siblings, cousins, and best friends' kids. Nobody I grew up with should skip a degree over money while I have it.
• The rest gets invested in people. First checks, tools, tuition, a month of runway for somebody building their own thing. Money compounds fastest when you put it in a person nobody else believed in yet. That is why the number is high: you cannot pull anyone up from underwater.

All of it is checkable. The fee schedule, the charity flows, and the running total against the goal live on the transparency page, derived from on-chain state. The machine-readable goal is at /goal.json so every Kitsune product reports against the same line.

Feed a family, fund the cousins, arm the builders. The dollar can be mightier than God and still work for something decent.